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I was asked to look at a job locally where the bloke had 8 x 50 watt gu10 downlights in a kitchen on a 400 watt dimmer switch. He said the dimmer had stopped working but he was having to change lamps quite frequently. I said that the dimmer was on its max load and he would be better down rating the lamps to 35 watt to help it out, and I stripped circuit and tested continuity through circuit as he wanted to know the circuit wasn't causing his lamps to go via any high resistance joints. Having replaced the dimmer with an equivalent from a reputable online lighting company and changed the lamps for 35 watt ,within two weeks two lamps have gone and the dimmer has stopped working! Would a leading edge dimmer be a solution to this problem or trailing edge, I havn't really any experience with the technicalities of dimmers so any advice appreciated?